Thread: Anyone ever traded in a rifle before?

Originally Posted by jakewire

Been a long long time since I've traded a rifle
Here an example

I bought a Sako 85 Deluxe , beautiful rifle, has fired 11 rds of factory 6.5x55 since i bought it and has never been hunting though has been carefully fondled a lot.

When the Tikka Tac came out , I took it back to H/F purely as a matter of interest to see what I could get as a trade on the Tac which then was selling for 3400 hundred.

The Deluxe as above was in perfect nic and had fired only 11 slow factory Blue box rounds, very accurately I might add, it is infact the only rifle I own or have owned for 30 odd yrs that hasn't been "Improved" in some way

Any way I expected to be somewhere in the ball park of the Tac, but no, I was offered two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars less than I paid for it with a 1400$ change over price going Hunting and Fishing's way.
I've bought two more rifles and a shotgun since that day, one rifle was second hand but the other and the shot gun was new, none of them were bought from Hunting and Fishing.

yip got offered $1500 for a as new sako 85 finnlight 260 from h&f i asked him if he was joking

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